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Leftover Egg Shell Ideas
by Kim Tilley
What
do you do with the leftover egg shells
after boiling all of those
eggs?
Make
egg mosaics with the kids - glue broken
shells in patterns to make fun
pictures.
Crush
and plant them in your roses - they
loved broken egg shells!
Compost
them (as long as you're just using food
coloring on the egg shells, they should
be fine in the compost
pile).
Create
egg shell candles- insert a tea light
into an egg shell half, or create a
candle by pouring in melted candle wax
into the egg shell and adding a wick.
Very pretty.
Chia
egg shells: plant chives or grass seed
into egg shell half for the "hair",
draw face on the egg for a chia egg
shell "person".
Make
egg
shell
chalk
(posted on our Frugal Crafts list)
-This chalk is for drawing on sidewalks
only, not for chalkboards.
You
will need:
The shells of 6 eggs
1 tsp very hot water from the tap
1 tsp flour
Wash the eggshells well, so they don't
have any egg left in them. Dry them and
grind them with a rock on the sidewalk or
other concrete surface. Make sure the rock
you're using for grinding is clean so you
don't get dirt ground in with the
eggshells. Grind the eggshells into a fine
powder. You'll need one soupspoonful of
this powder to make a stick of chalk.
When you have enough powder to make a
stick of chalk, sift or pick out any
little bits of eggshell that are still not
ground up and throw them away. Scoop the
powder into a cup or paper towel and bring
it into the house for the next part.
Stir the flour and hot water together in a
small dish to make a paste. Put the soup
spoonful of eggshell powder into the paste
and mix well. It may help to mash it with
the back of the spoon. Add a few drops of
food coloring if you want colored chalk.
Shape this mixture into a chalk stick.
Then roll it up in a strip of paper towel
and set aside to dry. (Drying takes about
three days.) Then just peel the paper off
one end and you're ready for some sidewalk
art. For really big sticks of chalk, try
making 3 times this recipe, and stuff the
mixture into an old toilet paper tube.
When it's dry, you can peel away the
cardboard as you use it.
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